Samuel White

Samuel White (December 1770-4 November 1809) was a US Senator from Delaware from 28 February 1801 to 4 November 1809, succeeding Henry Latimer and preceding Outerbridge Horsey. He was a member of the Federalist Party.

Biography
Samuel White was born in Kent County, Delaware in 1770, and he converted from Anglicanism to Methodism as a child during the American Revolutionary War. He was admitted to the bar in 1793, and he was chosen to finish Henry Latimer's US Senate term in 1801, serving until 1809. He died in Wilmington in 1809, one of very few Federalist Party members to remain in Congress at the time of his death.